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Tonight at Ten:
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Britain and France
sign a deal agreeing new measures | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
to tackle the numbers
of migrants at Calais. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:16 | |
At a summit in Sandhurst,
Theresa May committed tens | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
of millions of pounds
to strengthen the UK's | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
border controls in France. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:25 | |
These are all important
developments for the future. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
Enhancing our bilateral
relationship, increasing | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
the security of both our countries
and also increasing the prosperity | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
of both our countries. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
And both countries have committed
to closer defence and security | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
co-operation in the coming years
after Brexit | 0:00:39 | 0:00:45 | |
TRANSLATION: | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
TRANSLATION:. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
Brexit discussions should
not in any way impact | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
the quality of the relationship
between our two countries. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
It will never prevent a high
level of cooperation | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
between Britain and France. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
We'll have the latest from Sandhurst
where President Macron | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
also confirmed the loan
of the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
Also tonight... | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
Hospital consultants in Wales say
patient safety is being compromised, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
and that the NHS and social care are
chronically under resourced. We've | 0:01:10 | 0:01:16 | |
got patient in the apartment where
we don't have space to see them. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
We're coming back the next day and
some of the patients are still here. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
It's getting worse every winter but
this is the worst we have seen it. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:30 | |
Scientists say that man-made
climate change is now | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
the most important
factor in pushing up the | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
earth's temperatures. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:36 | |
The Court of Appeal is to consider
whether terminally-ill patients , | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
should be allowed assistance ,
if they wish to die. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
And at 36,000 feet,
the Pope has officiated | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
at an improvised marriage service. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
And coming up on Sportsday:
Defending Masters snooker champion | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan says he's glad
to | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
be knocked out of the tournament
after losing in the quarterfinals. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:58 | |
Good evening. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
Britain and France have tonight
agreed to closer ties | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
on defence and security
and measures to tackle | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
the migrant crisis. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:23 | |
The deal was struck between
Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
who was making his first visit
to the UK since becoming President | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
of France last year. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:29 | |
The talks took place at the Royal
Military Academy, Sandhurst. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
Mrs May committed tens
of millions of pounds | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
to strengthen UK border
controls in France. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
The Sandhurst treaty will also
accelerate the processing | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
of migrants trying to come
to the UK through Calais. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:46 | |
And while both countries committed
to closer military cooperation, | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
Mr Macron warned that
if Britain wanted access | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
to the single market
after Brexit, then it would have | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
to play by the EU's rules. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
Our deputy political editor
John Pienaar reports. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
Nothing like a bit of pomp
and ceremony to get a big meeting | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
started. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:13 | |
Monsieur Macron and Mrs May won't be
EU partners much longer, so | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
they are now keener than ever
to keep in step where | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
they can, to stay in tune. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
France is a key ally. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
Brexit is coming and the Prime
Minister is treading a delicate | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
line. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:34 | |
Cooperation now, always hoping
friendship pays off in the | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
future. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:40 | |
At least, goodwill is
on Theresa May's wish list. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
The president came to this Sandhurst
summit to talk business about | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
military collaboration
and border co-operation. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
He wanted more cash
for border control. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:47 | |
He went to a migrant
centre near Calais this | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
week, and he's been promised another
£44 million for border security. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
More child migrants would be allowed
into Britain and families reunited | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
faster. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:57 | |
Boris Johnson and a troupe
of Cabinet colleagues mingled with | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
French counterparts. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
The two countries
are the EU's biggest | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
military powers, and today
they promised British helicopters | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
to help French troops fighting
jihadists in | 0:04:09 | 0:04:10 | |
West Africa. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
So although the deals
and agreements being struck and | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
signed here are important, this
summit matters more than just the | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
sum of its parts. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
France will be crucial
to Britain's chances of | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
getting a good Brexit deal including
on trade, and the France- UK | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
relationship will also be important
in determining Britain's clout as a | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
global player after Brexit. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
When the two leaders
appeared to face the | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
media, Mrs May was clearly keen
to make her guests feel at home. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:41 | |
SHE SPEAKS FRENCH. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
Her ambition? | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
Enhancing our bilateral
relationship, increasing the | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
security of our countries and also
increasing the prosperity of both | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
our countries, and that is good for
the people of France and of the UK. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:59 | |
He sounded friendly too, having
agreed to lend the 1000-year-old | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
Bayeux Tapestry, he joked it was
time for a new one, more peace for | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
this time. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:07 | |
-- peaceful. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
-- peaceful. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:10 | |
But as for letting British
financial services free | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
access to Europe? | 0:05:12 | 0:05:13 | |
Be my guest. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
Be my guest, he said,
but only if you pay | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
into the EU budget and obey
the European court. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
President, Prime Minister,
ladies and gentlemen, | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
thank you very much. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:22 | |
On the count of three,
a little bit of a smile, | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
please. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:25 | |
To look at the leaders and their top
teams beaming on cue, you | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
would never know the two countries
have been Europe's biggest rivals | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
and closest neighbours
for time out of mind. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
They still are, but it suits both
sides to get on well. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
Mrs May is certainly
hoping they will. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:43 | |
With me is our diplomatic
correspondent James Robbins. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
We'll talk to James
in a moment, but first | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
to John Pienaar at Westminster. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
This obviously wasn't a Brexit
summit today, but clearly that was | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
the context. Yes, Mrs May quite
clearly wants to stay as far as | 0:05:55 | 0:06:00 | |
possible on president Macron's good
side for all sorts of reasons, but | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
among them the fact his voice will
be as influential as any lead in | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
Europe and much what influential
than most when it comes to deciding | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
the shape of Brexit in negotiations.
As things stand, Britain and France | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
do not see the shape of Brexit the
same way in every respect at all, | 0:06:15 | 0:06:21 | |
and among those reasons and problems
is the access to the European single | 0:06:21 | 0:06:26 | |
market for the financial services
business centred in the City of | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
London. As things stand, after
Brexit, the city will lose the | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
access it has now and Paris
certainly would like a slice of that | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
cake. We saw President Macron this
evening saying, look, if you want to | 0:06:37 | 0:06:42 | |
carry on without accessing the
future, be my guest, but you'll have | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
to carry on paying into the EU
budget as you do now. You'll have to | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
carry on following European Union
regulations and have those | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
regulations watched over by the
European Court of Justice. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
Politically Theresa May could really
not agree to that, it would be | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
politically impossible. Even if she
wanted to go along with that, | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
Brexiteers, much of her party, would
not allow it. As I say, a great deal | 0:07:03 | 0:07:09 | |
more diplomacy required. I'm going
to turn to James in the studio. When | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
you look at the kind of deals being
struck today, what does today tell | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
us about the state of play now
between Britain and France? It tells | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
us how complex this relationship is.
The arrangements to support France | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
in the field against Islamists in
Africa by sending helicopters is | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
generally militarily useful to the
French, as they will reinforce | 0:07:30 | 0:07:35 | |
Britain on the Nato border with
Russia and Estonia. It was very | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
clear this wasn't altogether a
meeting of equals, these are two | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
countries with very similar economic
power in the world. They both sit on | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
the Security Council. You were very
aware, I was very aware at | 0:07:45 | 0:07:50 | |
Sandhurst, you are watching a man
who feels immensely powerful as a | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
consequence of sweeping to victory
in the presidency at the head of a | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
new party and sweeping all before
him in French parliament. Facing a | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
woman who had no such success in her
election the same year. There was an | 0:08:01 | 0:08:06 | |
imbalance of power, you felt,
between them, and very striking | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
President Macron was the one who
spelt out the terms of the changes | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
to Britain's immigration procedures
in Calais, accelerating the process | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
of getting unaccompanied children to
Britain. Theresa May didn't want to | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
talk about that, it's highly
politically sensitive. You felt | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
there was a lot of tension in the
room. Not, as President Macron said, | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
that he wants to punish Britain. But
he said he didn't want to award | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
Britain. You felt this was a man who
knew he would play a very | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
substantial part in Brexit
negotiations, and that Britain was | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
the one that for better or worse was
heading into uncharted waters. James | 0:08:38 | 0:08:45 | |
Robbins our diplomatic
correspondent. And John Pienaar | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
earlier at Westminster. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
The UK is in the grip of the worst
flu season for seven years. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
The latest figures show
that the number of people who went | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
to their GP with suspected flu
in England rose by 40% | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
in the past week, with similar
numbers in the rest | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
of the UK. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:01 | |
The cold weather is keeping up
the pressure on accident | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
and emergency units. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:04 | |
In Wales, dozens of senior doctors
have written to the Welsh government | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
saying that patient safety
is being put at risk | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
to an unacceptable degree. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
They said planning for a winter
crisis had been inadequate, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
and the NHS in Wales
is "chronically under-resourced". | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
Here's our Wales
Correspondent Sian Lloyd. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:20 | |
We've heard of emergency units
across the UK in crisis and today | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
doctors in Wales raised concerns
about the system here. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
Tim Rogerson is one of 46
consultants in emergency medicine | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
who put their name to a letter sent
to the First Minister warning that | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
patient safety is being compromised. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:39 | |
Well, there's good evidence that
in a crowded emergency | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
department that patients
have their treatment delayed. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
And that can make their illness more
protracted and, ultimately, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
it can make people's lives
be at risk. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
So yes, people may die
because of the pressures | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
that we are facing. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:55 | |
She had to wait three or four
hours for the ambulance, | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
then she had to sit outside accident
and emergency in the ambulance, | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
then she got transferred
to a trolley in a corridor. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
82-year-old Joan Phelps is now
being cared for in hospital, | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
but her daughter, Tricia,
is horrified at the 13 hours it took | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
for her mother to be treated. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
So as a patient, especially in South
Wales, you almost come to expect it. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
You know that once the winter comes
you know if anything happens | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
and you need an ambulance,
get comfortable in that ambulance, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
because that's where you're
going to be staying for the next | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
couple of hours. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
Resus is full,
trolley bays are full. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
The team at Morriston Hospital
in Swansea is trying to come up | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
with ways of dealing
with busy times. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
Many of those packed into this room
have volunteered to leave their desk | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
jobs to join medical staff
on the front line. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:43 | |
Are you being looked after? | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
Donna Day is one of them. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:46 | |
A personal assistant
with the health board. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
She's now working to speed up the
flow of patients to the hospital. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:56 | |
I'll come down onto the ward,
get the bed state and see how | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
many beds we've got,
if we've got any discharges due, | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
or potential discharges
for the various times of the day. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
And if there's anything
delaying those discharges, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
then I can chase that up. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:09 | |
The scheme is having some success,
but the NHS in Wales | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
is facing many challenges. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
The latest figures show that
in December less than 80% of A&E | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
patients in Wales were admitted
or discharged within four hours. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
That is way below the Welsh
government's 95% target | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
and worse than a year ago. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:26 | |
The Welsh government says that this
December was the busiest on record. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
It recognises the challenges faced
by staff and says it has invested | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
an extra £60 million to help people
working in emergency units like this | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
one deliver their services. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:41 | |
We are better prepared than ever
before, but there are real | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
risks in where we go. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:45 | |
Spike in demand, unavoidable
pressures, but also | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
planned for pressures. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:48 | |
And we've seen some of those. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:56 | |
Politicians and doctors recognise
that this problem is not | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
going away any time soon. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
In fact, it's feared patients
could wait even longer | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
unless there is a revolution
in the way health and social | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
care is delivered. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
Sian Lloyd, BBC News, Swansea. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:12 | |
As we said, the latest figures show
the number of people in England | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
who went to their GP with suspected
flu rose by 40 % in the past week, | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
with similar numbers
in the rest of the UK. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
Our health editor Hugh Pym
is at St Mary's Hospital in London. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:29 | |
What has been said about this
growing pressure? Public health | 0:12:29 | 0:12:35 | |
officials are confirming this is the
worst flu season we seen since the | 0:12:35 | 0:12:40 | |
winter of 2010-11 in terms of
hospital admissions. They are not | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
back at the levels seen before
winter but officials say this is a | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
significant flu season and when you
look at the number of people going | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
into GP surgeries with flu-like
symptoms, there has been a really | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
sharp increase since the New Year.
Nearly four fold in Wales. It may | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
explain some of the pressures on A&E
between two and three fold increases | 0:12:59 | 0:13:11 | |
seen since the New Year in other
parts of the UK. Public health staff | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
say there are things people can do
to minimise the risk of catching was | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
spreading through, it's not too late
to have the flu jab. In English A&E | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
units performance improved very
slightly in the second week of this | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
year compared to the forced. Few
ambulances stuck outside hospitals | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
waiting to hand over patients. One
leading virus expert has said it's | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
very possible this is just another
bad flu season which the NHS has | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
dealt with before. But this time you
have a lot of pressure already | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
there. The challenge is an ageing
population is facing multiple health | 0:13:35 | 0:13:40 | |
conditions and that I think is why
there is concern that high levels of | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
the NHS about what flu might yet
bring. Many thanks for the latest, | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
Hugh Pym at St Mary 's Hospital. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
Severe gales have hit much
of northern Europe and | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
four people have been killed
by falling trees or debris, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
where gusts of up to 90 miles
per hour have been recorded. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
Across the Netherlands and Germany,
winds caused severe disruption | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
on roads and damage to property. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
Hundreds of flights and trains
were also cancelled. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:10 | |
Here, powerful winds have caused
disruption across parts of the UK, | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
with gusts of over 80 miles an hour. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
Tens of thousands of homes have been
without power for much | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
of the day in East Anglia
and the south-east of England. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
The high winds brought down trees
and power cables, blocking | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
rail lines and roads
and damaging homes. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
For the first time, scientists
say they're confident | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
that the impact of humans
on the global climate | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
is dwarfing that of natural change. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
Research from agencies that
monitor climate change, | 0:14:35 | 0:14:41 | |
including the UK Met Office
and the US space agency | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
Nasa, shows that 2017
was the hottest year on record. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
And 17 of the 18 warmest years
recorded since 1850 | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
have been in this century. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:49 | |
Researchers say that burning
fossil fuels is to blame, | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
as our environment analyst
Roger Harrabin explains. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:59 | |
The recent wildfires
in California, not caused | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
by man-made climate change,
but influenced by high temperatures | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
drying out parched land. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
Followed by the deadly mudslides
there, caused by an unusual | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
combination of extreme
rain and heat. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:19 | |
Some scientists say the latest
global temperature record proves | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
it's CO2 emissions that
are the main thing | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
heating the planet. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
Look back to the worldwide
temperature graphs of the 1990s | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
from the Met Office. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:32 | |
The warming El Nino current
caused that spike in 1998. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:38 | |
Temperature dips for a few years
after that, but in 2015 and 2016, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
El Nino is back with record highs. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
But look. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
2017 had no heating from El Nino,
and it's in the top | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
three hottest years. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
a clear sign that greenhouse gases
are the main drivers of warming. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
What this is showing really
is that these influences | 0:15:55 | 0:16:00 | |
of the human activity on climate
through our emissions of greenhouse | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
gases are really dwarfing
the natural climate processes | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
associated with El Nino. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:10 | |
Flooding near the coast like this
after Hurricane Harvey is the most | 0:16:10 | 0:16:12 | |
certain outcome of climate change,
as the seas rise and | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
the planet keeps on warming. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:16 | |
Today's report has been
a real wake-up call. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
It really shows that climate change
is happening and it's happening now. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:26 | |
You know, it shows that we can't
keep burning coal, oil and gas, | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
and that politicians need to stop
dithering and take real action. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:32 | |
In Scotland, travellers may be
wondering why they've got snow | 0:16:32 | 0:16:38 | |
while the world is warming,
but that's just short-term weather. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
Heatwaves in Australia look more
like climate change, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
records being broken all the time. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:46 | |
All nations except
the USA are committed | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
to tackling climate change. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
They all accept
they need to do more. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
Roger Harrabin, BBC News. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
A couple in California accused
of imprisoning their 13 | 0:16:56 | 0:17:03 | |
children for several years
while subjecting them | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
to appalling abuse
have appeared in court | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
for the first time. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
David and Louise Turpin pleaded not
guilty to more than 90 | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
charges, including torture
and false imprisonment. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
Our correspondent James Cook
is at the hearing. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:17 | |
What's been going on? David and
Louise Turpin appeared a few seconds | 0:17:18 | 0:17:26 | |
ago inside the courtroom here. It
was a brief, procedural appearance | 0:17:26 | 0:17:33 | |
at which they pleaded not guilty.
Louise Turpin, sitting along the | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
left-hand side of the bench as we
looked at them, the cameras were not | 0:17:37 | 0:17:42 | |
allowed into the court, David
Turpin, with a mop of grey hair, | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
sitting in the middle -- the cameras
were allowed in. They are facing the | 0:17:45 | 0:17:53 | |
most serious charges that any parent
could face short of murder. They are | 0:17:53 | 0:17:58 | |
facing charges that date back in
California until 2010 of torturing, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:04 | |
abusing, tying up and mistreating
their children, who were severely | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
malnourished. We got a lot more
detail today, some of it very | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
distressing, about how these
children were punished by their | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
parents. They were punished through
beatings, to being hogtied even. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:20 | |
They were so severely malnourished,
and one of the girls had been | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
plotting the escape along with some
of her siblings for two years before | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
she finally made it out. James,
thanks for bringing us up to date on | 0:18:27 | 0:18:32 | |
that case in California. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
The private financing of projects
such as the building | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
of schools and hospitals
is costing taxpayers billions | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
of pounds more than public
sector alternatives. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
That's the verdict of the the
parliament's spending watchdog. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
Its report suggests that a group
of schools cost 40% more to build, | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
and a hospital 70% more. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
The debate on private companies
delivering public services has | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
become more urgent this week
with the collapse of Carillion - | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
the UK's second largest
construction firm. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
Here's our economics
editor, Kamal Ahmed. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
Shiny new roads, shiny,
award-winning new schools. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
Shiny new hospitals. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
But they have come at a cost: | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
private financing -
they're called PFIs - | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
that is more expensive | 0:19:12 | 0:19:13 | |
than traditional
government borrowing. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
Is it time for them to be brought
back under Government control? | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
PFIs cost us more over a longer
period, and it's much | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
cheaper to borrow money
in the traditional way. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
So bringing them back will actually
save a lot of money. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:32 | |
There have been successes - | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
the Thames super sewer, on budget
and on target - | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
and problems... | 0:19:37 | 0:19:38 | |
a lack of flexibility
in the contract, which can leave | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
schools with bizarre bills,
like £8,000 for a window blind. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:47 | |
And the overspends, leaving schemes
struggling to make ends meet. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:52 | |
This is University College
London Hospital, | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
one of the country's
largest and most expensive | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
PFI projects. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
There are 700 other private finance
initiatives in the UK. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
Taxpayers are paying more
than £10 billion a year for them, | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
and the bills will keep rolling
in until the 2040s. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
Using private companies to deliver
big public sector projects | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
does involve some trade-offs. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
Yes, they might be more expensive. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
Yes, we could be paying
the bills for decades ahead. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
But what do we get in return? | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
We get schemes that
are delivered more quickly. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
And for politicians ever worried
about the general election | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
that could be just ahead,
that speed really matters. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:36 | |
It mattered to them. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:37 | |
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
turbo-charged
the number of PFI contracts. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
There are fewer now,
and Scotland has changed the way | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
it finances public sector projects. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
Rohan Silva advised David Cameron
on government delivery. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
The original thinking was to bring
private sector investment, | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
but also rigour and discipline, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
to the building of
public sector projects. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
Government wasn't so good at getting
stuff built on time and on budget. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:06 | |
The truth is, though, that this
approach was really abused, | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
particularly in the 2000s. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:09 | |
It got extended to schools
and hospitals, | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
completely inappropriate for this
type of financing. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
The collapse of Carillion,
a big PFI provider, has put | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
the debate about private finance
and public projects | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
back in the spotlight. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
The Government insists PFI has
delivered, | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
and the rules
have been tightened. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
But today's report shows just how
high the cost has been. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
Kamal Ahmed, BBC News. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:39 | |
President Trump has denied
that his views have changed | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
about building a wall along
the border with Mexico. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
Building the wall was
a key campaign pledge, | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
and embodied his vision of America
First. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
In the second of our
reports charting a year | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
of the Trump presidency,
our North America Editor Jon Sopel | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
has travelled to the border
with Mexico, and considers how | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
Mr Trump has shaped
American foreign policy. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
If you want a symbol of the Trump
approach to foreign policy, | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
it's this: The wall. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:08 | |
We will build the wall, as sure
as you are standing there tonight. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
We need the wall. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
What's here at the moment,
he sees as woefully inadequate, | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
as he tweeted about again today. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
"We need the wall for the safety
and security of our country. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
We need the wall to help
stop the massive inflow | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
of drugs from Mexico." | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
He wants a physical barrier sealing
America from Mexico, literally. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:31 | |
But it's a metaphor, too,
for the rest of the world - | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
America First, America protected. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
Up the coast from this barren
border in California, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
it feels like another planet. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:42 | |
On the outskirts of LA
is the high-tech pharmaceutical | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
company Zencore, one of many
in the area. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:46 | |
This is the entire staff. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
This is how many of them
were born in the US. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:52 | |
This is how many have parents
who were born in the US. | 0:22:52 | 0:23:00 | |
The owner, himself
of Jordanian origin, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:01 | |
says the president's immigration
policies are self-defeating. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
We're competing against China
and India and Europe. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
If we can't bring in the best
from everywhere, we're not | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
going to win anymore. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
When you think of these American
industries, we don't function | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
without the ability to get the best
talent from the world. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
And, well, that means immigration. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
America can't just disentangle
itself from the rest of the world | 0:23:17 | 0:23:23 | |
and its long-standing commitments,
whether it be trade with the people | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
who live on the other side of this
wall, whether it be Nato | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
commitments, the Pacific,
or fighting Isis, or Donald Trump's | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
long-standing ambition of bringing
peace between the Israelis | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
and the Palestinians. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
Just along from here,
they are working out | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
what sort of wall to build. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
The inspiration for it
are the concrete sections | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
of the separation barrier that
Israel has built. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
When Donald Trump visited
the region last May, | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
he made a point of being evenhanded,
pleasing Israelis with his visit | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
to the Western Wall,
satisfying Palestinians | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
by going to Bethlehem. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
But he enraged the Arab world
when last month, he announced | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
he wanted to recognise Jerusalem
as Israel's capital and move | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
the US embassy there. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:08 | |
This is nothing more or less
than a recognition of reality. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:13 | |
It is also the right thing to do. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:18 | |
Palestinians were horrified
and showed their disgust | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
by burning US flags. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
One year on, no one's any clearer
about what the Trump peace | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
plan will look like. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
A reinforced wall might stop illegal
immigrants scurrying | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
across the border from Mexico,
but it's not going to do much | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
to stop an intercontinental
ballistic missile | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
fired from North Korea. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
That country's nuclear tests have
provided Donald Trump | 0:24:40 | 0:24:46 | |
with his greatest foreign policy
challenge, a challenge he's met | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
in his own inimitable way. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
Rocket Man is on a suicide mission
for himself, and for his regime. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
They will be met with fire and fury. | 0:24:55 | 0:25:02 | |
But here, the tough
talk may be working. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
Yes, the provocative nuclear
tests have continued, | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
but have slowed down. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
Tougher sanctions have been agreed,
and North Korea has reopened a line | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
of communications to the South,
and its athletes will now | 0:25:12 | 0:25:16 | |
participate in the forthcoming
Winter Olympics. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
Is that the Trump effect? | 0:25:19 | 0:25:24 | |
Donald Trump had almost seemed
to hope that the world | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
would leave America alone,
but that's not how it works | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
when you're US president. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:31 | |
The world has a habit of intruding. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:37 | |
And even the sturdiest wall
and the most trenchant America-First | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
slogan can only protect
you from so much. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
Jon Sopel, BBC News,
on the US-Mexico border. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:46 | |
The Government has been ordered
to make immediate improvements | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
to Nottingham Prison
after it was warned that the jail | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
was "fundamentally unsafe". | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
Eight men are believed to have taken
their own lives there in two years. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
The Chief Inspector of Prisons used
a new "urgent notification" letter | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
to demand action within 28 days,
warning that there could be | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
"further tragedies". | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
The Court of Appeal is to consider
whether terminally ill patients | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
should be allowed help to die. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:15 | |
It has granted permission
to Noel Conway - | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
a 68-year-old retired lecturer - | 0:26:17 | 0:26:18 | |
to challenge the law,
which forbids assisted suicide. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
Mr Conway, who has motor
neurone disease, is now too | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
ill to attend court. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:30 | |
Our medical correspondent
Fergus Walsh has spoken to two | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
campaigners with opposing views. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:33 | |
Sarah Jessiman from Warwickshire
knows her time left is limited. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:38 | |
Breast cancer has spread
to her spine, and the treatment has | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
at times been extremely painful. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
Sarah, who has an unrelated hearing
disorder, fears for the future. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:54 | |
There's a possibility that I'm
going to have a painful | 0:26:59 | 0:27:01 | |
and prolonged death,
and I'm scared. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
I am very scared of the thought
of being bedbound in agony | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
for weeks or months. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
Sarah wants a doctor to be allowed
to prescribe her a lethal dose | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
of drugs if her final months become
unbearable, but MPs | 0:27:12 | 0:27:17 | |
overwhelmingly rejected proposals
for a right to die in 2015. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:23 | |
I'd like the law changed so that
I can have a peaceful death | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
at the time I choose,
rather than the time that | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
cancer might have in mind for me. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:37 | |
Sarah, who recently celebrated her
20th wedding anniversary, | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
says people should have a choice
over how they die. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:45 | |
I don't want to have the kind
of death where my friends | 0:27:45 | 0:27:50 | |
and family say to my husband and to
each other, | 0:27:50 | 0:27:56 | |
"Thank goodness she's not
suffering any more." | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
Why do I have to suffer
that indignity? | 0:27:58 | 0:28:05 | |
Juliet Marlow from Hampshire has had
rheumatoid arthritis | 0:28:07 | 0:28:09 | |
since she was five years old. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
Her immune system
attacks her joints. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:14 | |
She's had both her knees
and hips replaced. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
Juliet can no longer walk
and relies on carers. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:21 | |
Every joint in my body has
got arthritis in it. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:29 | |
I have a large amount
of pain, but I take | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
painkillers on a daily basis. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
I take anti-inflammatories
and between them, | 0:28:34 | 0:28:35 | |
they keep the pain at bay. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:42 | |
Juliet is opposed to
a change in the law. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
She says allowing assisted suicide
would make many disabled people feel | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
even more vulnerable and scared. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:53 | |
We don't want society
to turn its back on us. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:57 | |
It would send a message to me
that my life wasn't worth living, | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
you know, because so many people
judge me on what I can't do | 0:29:00 | 0:29:03 | |
without focusing on what I can do. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:11 | |
And she says allowing doctors
to help people to die | 0:29:11 | 0:29:14 | |
would break the bond of trust. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:19 | |
The relationship between doctor
and patient, I believe, | 0:29:19 | 0:29:21 | |
will be fundamentally damaged
if we ask them to be our | 0:29:21 | 0:29:24 | |
executioners as well as our healers. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:32 | |
Noel Conway, who is fighting
for the right to an assisted death, | 0:29:32 | 0:29:37 | |
is becoming progressively weaker
and is thought to have little more | 0:29:37 | 0:29:39 | |
than six months left to live. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:44 | |
His legal team have asked the Court
of Appeal to hear his case | 0:29:44 | 0:29:47 | |
as soon as possible. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:49 | |
Fergus Walsh, BBC News. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:57 | |
Prince Harry and his fiance
Meghan Markle were an hour late | 0:29:59 | 0:30:05 | |
Prince Harry and his fiancee
Meghan Markle were an hour late | 0:30:05 | 0:30:07 | |
for their first official visit
to Wales this afternoon | 0:30:07 | 0:30:09 | |
because their train was delayed. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
That didn't stop hundreds of people
braving the cold to greet them | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
with cheers outside Cardiff Castle. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:15 | |
The couple - who are
due to marry in May - | 0:30:15 | 0:30:17 | |
are on a tour of UK cities
to introduce Meghan to her new home. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
The Pope has performed
an impromptu wedding ceremony | 0:30:21 | 0:30:28 | |
on a flight over Chile. | 0:30:28 | 0:30:29 | |
The couple, both employees
of the airline, approached the Pope | 0:30:29 | 0:30:35 | |
with their request
during the flight. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:37 | |
Our Religion Editor Martin
Bashir has the story. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
They'd walked up the aisles on many
occasions, but never in church. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:46 | |
Flight attendants Paula Ruiz and
Carlos Elorriga married in a civil | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
ceremony because their church
in Santiago had been destroyed by an | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
earthquake eight years ago. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:52 | |
And so they asked
the Pope if he would | 0:30:52 | 0:30:54 | |
bless their union. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
But Pope Francis, who wrote
about love in the family | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
two years ago, made them
an even better offer. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
Would they like him to marry them? | 0:31:03 | 0:31:06 | |
An astounded groom describes
what happens next. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:14 | |
TRANSLATION: We had a short
and small ceremony. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
He took our hands and he asked
if there was love in | 0:31:18 | 0:31:21 | |
our marriage, and if we want to keep
on being together all life long. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:25 | |
I'm getting emotional as I say it. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:27 | |
It's not easy. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:28 | |
We said yes. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:29 | |
TRANSLATION: It was a huge emotion. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:30 | |
We are very, very happy. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:34 | |
The handwritten marriage document
was signed by the bride | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
and groom, with the Pope
adding his own name in Spanish. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
Francisco. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
He concluded the ceremony
in the sky | 0:31:43 | 0:31:47 | |
by saying, "I hope this
motivates couples to marry". | 0:31:47 | 0:31:50 | |
But as far as Catholic
weddings go... | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
It's pretty hard to beat
being married | 0:31:52 | 0:31:56 | |
by the Pope on an aeroplane. | 0:31:56 | 0:31:58 | |
Martin Bashir, BBC News. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:19 |